throw them from the windows and watch them fly.
You’ve probably never wondered what goes on in my head but the internet can’t be stopped and will reveal some of my thoughts for you anyway. I’m awfully chuffed to be Little Paper Planes featured artist this month, you can buy an exclusive print and read an interview with me. HERE & HERE. Big big thanks to Kelly Lynn Jones & Maggie Haas!
R.M. Phoenix Print 6
by R.M. Phoenix
Little Paper Planes is pleased to introduce our second September 2011 artist, R.M. Phoenix, and to offer six exclusive prints of his work.
R. M. Phoenix explores that act of making across a variety of media, from photos to zines to paintings. Labor intensive drawings mix with serendipitous-feeling photos, all making a case for the importance of accidental details, and our attention to them.
These prints are 8.5 x 11″ and are offered individually. They are printed with Epson Ultra Chrome archival inks on Hahnemuhle German etching paper. The sizes reflect actual paper size, not image size. This prints orientation is landscape. The second image is a detail. Each print is hand numbered, in an edition of 50, along with R.M.’s signature printed in the border. Each print also comes with a Certificate of Authenticity printed on the back. This print is exclusive to Little Paper Planes.
To read his interview:
http://blog.littlepaperplanes.com
$35
She is Beautiful
I spent a few days last week at my girlfriend’s in North Wales, it’s so incredible out there, being back in London is a total drag.
I got the train back to Clapham Junction and my bus stop home is just outside the big TK Maxx there that was looted in the recent riots. The boards over the windows have been covered with a variety of hand written messages, the vast majority incredibly positive.
yesterday I posted off a new painting to be included in an exhibition called ‘About Abstraction’ in Berlin, at Chausseestraße 36, running parallel to the art fair weekend (08.09.-11.09.2011, opening Thursday, the 9th of September, 19:00H).
title: “Get By”
year: 2011
material: acrylic, wax, reclaimed wood & nails
measure: 26.5cm x 22cm
Tomorrow I’m printing the catalogue for the London show opening on Sept 8th, and the series of limited edition sleeves for my book, which will be based on this drawing….
the last word comes from Mr Andrew W.K.
a happy life in the mountains
I’ve been quiet because I’ve been busy. There’s exciting stuff in store for the second half of this year. For the time being there’s this…..
Tortoise
things are going slowly, and badly, in the studio.
though, some drawing I’ve been doing for the Sauna Youth ‘Lists’ upcoming release & exhibition I’ve found interesting and fruitful. I had been thinking around a vague notion of my drawings as possible/failed lists of space, and then I read this…
“The role of the grid in defying entropy goes well beyond the physical. Creating order is a survival impulse against the death drive of gravity and entropy – or, at the very least, a mode of making the daunting demands of existing in time and space more manageable. The parcelling of space is an attempt to wrangle the infinite, thereby gaining traction against one’s inevitable union with it. Umberto Eco has recently cited the linguistic equivalent: making lists (which he also made the topic of an exhibition he curated at the Louvre.) ”We like lists because we don’t want to die.” A grid is a comprehensive list of all parts of space, with nothing left unaccounted for.” Tauba Auerbach
I got my photo taken by the well nice photographer Neil Gavin
and finally got my first Holga film developed about 5 years after being used, didn’t come out so great, but all the more reason to use it more, and I gotta get on and learn how to use my new Super 8 camera too, start making some films.
Abandon With Depth
Today I was told that this drawing….
will be exhibited in this….
how cool is that huh?
ANIMAUX NOT O’CONNOR
Sauna Youth, the band my brother sings in, have released their new 7″ ‘Youth’. Of course, it’s brilliant, and the sleeve features a drawing collaboration between my brother and I, the first of many hopefully.
Before I moved to London I started working as a Youth Social Worker. At this time in my life Art was very much on the back burner as I felt the need to do something that seemed less ridiculous and indulgent. The job turned out to be massively negative and only strengthened my passion for being creative, making me feel less guilty and selfish about the artistic pursuit. Quitting that job finally drove me to move to London and commit myself to making art, and now, just over a year on, I have no regrets, am making work that excites me and finally feel I am moving closer to living a more authentic life. Thankyou to my brother, who wrote this song.
DES ANIMAUX
Fuck this job. It’s not everything I want, I thought it was but now it’s not. Good faith ruined me, now I’ll ruin good faith. Safety nets, in a bad place. I’m going to move to the city and dedicate my life to art. A life drawn outside the lines, anything else would be a lie. Plateaus, the middle, shades of grey. I can’t and I won’t live my life this way. I’m going to move to the city and dedicate my life to Art. I’m going to draw outside the lines.
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